V. I. Lenin

From The Central Committee
      of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)

Written:5 or 6 November, 1917First Published:in 1927 in the
      pamphletThe Party’s fight Against Zinoviev’s and
      kamenev’s Strike-breaking Tactics in October of 1917.Published according to the manuscriptSource:Lenin’sCollected
      Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 26, 1972,
      pp. 302-303Translated:Yuri Sdobnikov and George
      Hanna, Edited by George HannaTranscription & HTML Markup:Charles
      Farrell and David WaltersOnline Version:Lenin Internet ArchiveDecember,
    2000

To Comrades Kamenev, Zinoviev, Ryazanov and Larin

Once before, the Central Committee delivered an ultima—turn
      to the leading exponents of your policy (Kamenev and Zinoviev),
      demanding complete subordination to the Central Committee’s
      line and decisions, and renunciation of efforts to sabotage its
      work and of all subversive activity.[See
      pp.Ultimatum to the Majorityinthis volume. —Transcriber]

By leaving the Central Committee, but remaining in the Party,
      the exponents of your policy undertook to abide by Central
      Committee decisions. Actually, however, you have not confined
      yourselves to criticism within the Party, but have brought
      confusion into the ranks of the fighters- in an uprising which
      is still going on, and continue, in violation of Party
      discipline, to frustrate Central Committee decisions and hamper
      its work outside the Party, in the Soviets, the municipal
      bodies, the trade unions, etc.

In view of this, the Central Committee is forced to restate its
      ultimatum and to request that you immediately pledge yourselves
      in writing either to abide by Central Committee decisions and to
      conduct its policy in all your statements, or to withdraw from
      all Party activity in public and resign from all responsible
      posts in the working-class movement until the next Party
      congress.

Refusal to pledge yourselves to either course will make it
      imperative for the Central Committee to consider the question of
      your immediate expulsion from the Party.